When I was in school, our favorite pastime during breaks and off periods used to be opening up the Indian Map, locating a tiny place somewhere and asking the other party to find it. There were, of course, no mobile phones then, so no games and no social networking sites. I still remember that ‘Jalpaiguri’ was one of the destinations that used to often come up because it was very hard to find. Maybe I will visit it once just to see what it actually looks like.
I must confess though that I had never wondered about who was responsible for making these maps. Turns out it is National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organization - NATMO.

Wonder what other organizations like these are quietly doing their job without the general population ever noticing it.